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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A62893	The Muggletonians principles prevailing being an answer in full to a scandalous and malicious pamphlet, intituled A true representation of the absurd and mischevious principles of the sect called Muggletonians : herein the aforesaid principles are vindicated, and proved to be infallibly true : and the author of that libel, his scandalous title and subject proved as false to truth, as light is to darkness, and that he knows no more what the true God is, nor what the right devil is, nor any true principle or foundation of faith, for all his great learning he so much bosts of, then those Jews that put the Lord of life to death, for learned and taught reason is but natural, and so falls short of the glory of God, as will appear in the following discourse / by T.T.	Tomkinson, Thomas, 1631-1710?	1695 (1695)	Wing T1840; ESTC R18719	47,859	79

we are Obedient unto all the Civil Laws of the Land and give to every Man the Respect due unto him All therefore that we desire of you is That we may pass peacibly through your Country towards our Inheritance but you are not willing that we should no more than Edom was with Issrael Numb 20. but have presumed to stop our Course by judging and condeming our Faith Now if our Faith be true as we know it is then you have given Judgment against your self you were not aware of that Caution of our Saviours Saying Judg not and thou shalt not be Judged Matt. 7.1 Now in that we know that our Faith is of God and is Truth therefore is it of Power to reign over that which judgeth it But if we might come to Reason together then I would demand of you wherefore you did send out your judging Pamphlet against us and would not subscribe your Name to it Were you afraid of holding Tryal with us for fear you should be worsted by us as others have been heretofore and so were for working Mischief privately and yet ly in Cognito thinking belike that Faiths Power could not find you out to give you an Answer otherwise how could you find a Name to your Book and a Name to the People you wrote against but have found never a Name for your self but have left it to us to find a Name for you which according to holy Writ is Elimas a Corrupter Acts 13.10 a sworn Enemy to Truth and the Accuser of the Brethren being of a worthy Descent Successor to Simon Magus being newly crept out of the Colledg of Priests which came out of the Mouth of the False Prophet such a one as Amaziah the Priest of Beth-el Rev. 16.13 Amos 7.12 who could not abide a poor Prophet a Herds-Man that he should once speak near the King's Chappel because it was the King's Court in which Learned Amaziah was the Doctor and Chaplain Thus have you delt with these Prophets of the Lord and for fear that this poor Prophets Doctrin which you like Amaziah call Mischevious should take any Ephect amongst the People From hence you have secretly spred this your Pamphlet into your Brethren the Priests Hands all the Nation over and have endeavoured to make our Principles as Contemptable and Odious as possibly you could in order to make them seem the more Rediculous and this your Book must be as a Pattern for them to frame their Arguments by and those their Arguments must be as Bulworks of Defence to them and as Bullets shot against us Sir Esther 3.8 You have acted in the very same way as Haman did against Israel saying in this manner to the King There is a certain malitious and mischevious People scattered abroad amongst the People in all places and their Laws are differing from all People neither keep they the King 's Church-Laws therefore it is not for the King's profit to suffer them let them be destroyed for their Principles are mischevious Now I being a Member of this dispised People seeing your Spite and Malice against us who have broke no Law am from hence moved to return an Answer and this my Reply shall not spare you altho I am given to understand That you are a Doctor of the National Church for God and Faith is no respecter of Persons in such a Case Therefore this my Reply shall persue you until it overtake you and when it hath overtaken you it shall fasten a Witness in your Conscience that you have been a Fighter against God his Prophets and People and against the Sacred Scriptures and a false Representer of the Muggletonian's Principles and I shall not be long in proving the same For In the Preface of your Book you say That John Reeve was by Profession a Baker which Saying of yours is utterly False So here you haue forfited your Title-Page which instead of a true Representation is a false one But you bring him in as a Baker to make him the more Contemptible with the Learned but if he had would that have made him more uncapable of being God's last Messenger I tro not no more than it did Amos who was but a Herds-Man as aforesaid For this is evident that the Saints have found in all Ages that the Learned have ever stood up as an Enemy and Judg of spiritual Truth as will more appear in the sequel of my Discourse But to proceed to The Accusation against us In your Presace you call us poor deluded Souls and by the Name of a contemptible and pernicious Sect and blasphemiously affirm that it is made up of Impiety Nonsence and Absurdities and that we have not so much as the Shadow of Reason to support us From hence say you we will not submit to the Tryal of it being uncapable of Argument and that you wrote not that your Trealise for our Sakes that have not Reason and Argument as you say to answer you but for the Sakes and Satisfaction of the World and of the Learned who are capable say you to hear Reason and Argument CHAP. II. ANSWER AS to them Judging and Condemning Censures against us shall be answered Chap. 15. And as to your Reason and Argument you so much bost of I am willing to allow it its Prerogative and give it its due of having Government as to all Terrestial Affairs Deut. 1.13 Acts 26.3 18.14 15. But wherefore should it enter upon God's Prerogative so as to take upon it to judg divine Things that are Eternal Luke 20.14 by its unclean serpentine Reason But to such as are learned in Faith's School doth know Matt. 11.25 that he that doth Minister spiritual Things is to lay Reason and Argument by as to the sinding out of any heavenly Secrets by the most persingst Reason that is For Reason is not Heaven-born James 3.15 and so is but Natural and it is the natural or moral Law that enlightens it but Faith being of another Nature which is Spiritual Psal 19.7 John 1.4 and so the Law of Faith serves to quicken and enlighten Faith and when it is enlightened then she Rules as Mistress over Reason Therefore though the Kingdoms of this World lys in Reason yet the Kingdom of Christ lys in Faith which ever appears simple John 18.36 Luke 17.21 2 Cor. 1.12 Luke 1.53 6.25 and yet it is this poor despised Seed that receives the Gospel it s the Simple and the Foolish that catch Heaven The Poor are filled with the Substance of spiritual Truth when as the Rich in Reason Notion and Argument are sent empty away Therefore away with your Arguments where Faith is sought Matt. 4.18 Amos 1.1 Acts 18.3 Coll. 2.8 there the Fisher the Herds-man the Tent-maker Ai and he that you call the Baker rather than the Philosopher are to be trusted Do you teach the World by your Reason and Argument as you say this manifests that you and

have done it And that roaring Lyon Jefferies did say afterwards That he was sorry that their Laws were so unprovided that they could not take away Muggleton 's Life So that it is apparent that the Spirit and Life of these Two Witnesses is not killed but after the Two Winnesses of the Spirit are dead the Spirit and Life will remain in vigour 6thly Wherefore as the other Two Witnesses of Water and Blood did last to the end of the appointed time of their Commissions even so likewise will the Revelation of this Commission last to the end of the World for tho the Doctrin is declared as to the Substance yet in that Doctrin will Revelation arise grow and increase in such as hear it and understand it to their eternal Happiness Joy and Glory and shall Prevail and Triumph over all Forms and Opinions in Religion that now totters more than ever through its own Instability And now Sir are you not either Blind or Malitious or both that would forge Contradictions where there is none yea and to make Lies on purpose to make Truth appear Infamous So that are not you a Shifter of all Shifters and know not where to six or what to say or how to disprove it either by Scripture or sober Reason It 's a poor Shift to falsfy the Words of your Oponant because you have not anything that seems plausible to Answer Sir is this your Learning Pray do you believe that Book of the Revelation by St. John to be true Revelation and a part of holy Writ If you say you do then why will you not give your own Centiments of so much as one Verse and tell the Meaning thereof And if this Interpretation of theirs be not good Sense why do you not Reprove them with better But finding your Ignorance to be such therefore it had been better for you to have let this Book alone and plainly to have said That it was Sealed and you could not read it in its own Sense And it had been better for you to have let these Two Witnesses alone and all the Believers of it alone but you were appointed to that end that your Lies and Slandees against it may bring you to a full Reward For this Book of the Revelation by John was not writen for your Edification but for the Instruction of this last Witness and Benifit of the Seed of Faith to the End of the World as a peculiar Blessing Seal'd to them from Heaven And therefore by this Blessing of Faith and Knowledge in the Scriptures of Truth which is now given unto us we do from hence find that you have no part of the Blessing of this Book of the Revelation of St. John as may appear by these Seven Particulars following As First This Commission of the Spirit hath seen into the Book of Life wherein they have found the Names of the Prophets Apostles Chap. 20.15 and the Witnesses of the Spirit Recorded there as true Commissionated Messengers of God but your Name was not found there as a Minister of God This is the first Evidence of your Exclusion Secondly These Witnesses and the Believers thereof Chap. 14.3 have looked and seen those Hundred forty and four thousand Virgins that were Redeemed from the Earth standing with the Lamb their only God on Mount Sion singing that new Song of all Praise to the Lamb But you not having learn'd that Song of all Praise to the Lamb were not found amongst them but we Chap. 17.5 22.18 looking about have seen you in that great City Mistery Babilon the Mother of all Harloting and Blaspheming Priests who are said by the Spirit to have the Curse of this Book for ading and taking away from it For you add your own Imaginations to it and so from thence will make your own confounded Reason to be the Judg of it as I shew'd before in Chap. 2. Thirdly As we have seen you add your own vain Thoughts to it so likewise have we seen you taking away from the Words of this Prophesy Chap. 11.2 and the Two Witnesses thereof For you will not suffer those last true Prophets to have any Footing here but would thrust them out of the Book of Life Chap. 18.7 and thrust yourself into it But this Commission sheweth us That God will take away your part out of the Book of Life not that you had any there but that you thought you had and thought your Name was there but you are not in the Book of Life to be found neither as a Teacher nor as a true Believer as those Two Witnesses are and the true Believers thereof We have found our Names in this Book of Life of the Lamb Chap. 3.5 the only and alone wise God to our eternal Comfort and his everlasting Praise Forthly Again you have further taken away from this Book Chap. 22.4 2.18 19 12. 1.18 in that you denyed God to have any Body Face or Shape So that as the Blessing of this Book is That the Saints shall see his Face so the Curse of this Book is That such as have denyed him as aforesaid shall never see his Face to their Comfort Fifthly you have likewise taken away from this Book Chap. 1.8.18 2.8 in that you teach that the Alpha and Omega did not die But this Book doth declare that the Alpha and Omega the First and the last did die and shed his Blood by which he redeemed his Elect Seed so what part can you have in this Purchase seeing you deny that God had any Blood or offered up any Life by sheding of the same Sixthly 1 John 5.20 Revel 19.16 17. 15.13 1.8 22. ● 16 18.8 17.14 You also further add and take away from this Book of John in that you say That there is a God distinct from Christ And further say That Christ Jesus our Lord is not the sole God But this Book of John owns no other God at all but Jesus Christ giving him the Titles of First and Last the Alpha and Omega King of Kings God very God true God great and almighty God and the God of all Prophets Where then should there be any other God besides Jesus Christ our Lord for this divine Apostle who lived and leaned in the Bosom of this Lord knew not any other God as is abundantly proved Seventhly and lastly This God the Lord Jesus you have Renounced his Prophets you have Persecuted and Belied the true Faith you have despised for you have not only Contradicted and Dispised the Doctrin of the Second Commission which was the Commission of Blood but you have also to agrivate your Crime called the Doctrin of this Third and Last Commission which is the Commission of the Spirit and which is one of them three great Armies that in Heaven will follow the Lamb upon white Horses Chap. 19.14 which is the Righteousness of Faith in his blessed Person I say you have called this Commission Blasphemy Delusion Deceat And that it is say you made up of Impiety Nonsense and Alsurdities And in general calls them mischevious Principles Confusion and Contradiction and that we are a peraici ous and contemptable Sect c. So that from hence it doth plainly appear Chap. 19.15.20 21.27 That you have brought yourself under the Judgment and Sensure of that Book of John and of this Commission of the Spirit which doth so fully explain that Prophesy being sent to finish the Mistery of God Chap. 10.7 And now behold it is finished and you have beard and now you will find Psal 62.11 that Power belongeth unto this God and to this his Commission of the Spirit FINIS